My lake
by otto22

Comment by WonderDude:
Nice landscape!

Smoothness
by otto22

Comment by Dennisheckman:
Yep, smooth is a great title. One of my top scores of the challenge. Beautiful deep colors that I bet were exactly like that. Well done!

My lake
by otto22

Comment by dahkota:
Very well thought-out image. Very well edited image. It makes me say, Pretty," but no emotion beyond that. Not to say emotion is needed; I just prefer it. Good 'calendar' shot. 7

Fly No More
by otto22

Comment by Lydia:
Eerie... and cool.

Fly No More
by otto22

Comment by JayneRyan:
Is this the plane wreck in Churchill?

Fly No More
by otto22

Comment by Citadel:
Oh! Is this outside of Churchill, MB? I might be a little (a lot) jealous! :)


[Edit]...or Iceland. Still jealous

Smoothness
by otto22

Comment by snaffles:
Hehe I think I recognize those rocks! Make the most of that lovely scenery you have up there in Iceland. 8

Smoothness
by otto22

Comment by bmartuch:
I like the misty glow.

Smoothness
by otto22

Comment by gipper11:
This is very nice you seemed to have captured it at the perfect time of day, well done and good luck to you.

Sugar coated sunset
by otto22

Comment by snaffles:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Like many others I am wondering why this image didn't ribbon. Maybe Icelandic sunsets are now considered passe, along with macros of waterdrops and tigers swimming underwater?

Anyway I love this pic - the light is to die for, it's so subtle I can hardly believe it's a 30 second exposure. Composition is great with the high horizon as opposed to being dead-centre; great focus stacking, love the delicate rimefrost on the rocks and as was already noted, the 'pawprints' of frozen bubbles under the ice. Tiny bit of glare to the mid-right but hard to believe that that alone would knock you down.

Still, 24/126 isn't bad. All I can think is that most voters haven't lost their infatuation with heavily saturated colours. Next time blast the bejeezus out of the sunset/sunrise, and we'll probably see you ribbon again!

Susan